Frank Mardaus

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Frank Mardaus (born May 27, 1969 in Augsburg ) is a German photographer who specializes in narrative photography . He is a lecturer at the University of Augsburg .

Life

Frank Mardaus grew up in Augsburg and Althegnenberg , where he also went to school. Since his father was employed in Algeria for work, he took his family with him to the North African country. From 1982 to 1984 Mardaus attended the German School in Algiers . After this stay abroad, the family returned to Althegnenberg. From 1990 Mardaus studied economics and philosophy and modern German literature at the University of Augsburg and moved to Fuggerstadt in 1991. From 1996 he decided to work as a freelance artist. In 2005 he became a lecturer at the University of Augsburg. In 2008, the doctorate followed after a scientific examination of Uwe Johnson's image program in the Anniversaries . A review later dealt with Mardaus' work, which was published as a book.

In 1994 she began an artistic collaboration with Caroline Rusch , which led to her marriage in 2003. Some exhibition projects lasting several weeks resulted from this. Frank Mardaus is involved in the Augsburg SPD with a focus on culture.

Artistic technique

The freelancer uses, among other things, image carriers made of galvanized and tilted sheet steel on which photographs are drawn in several layers. The photographs are on the one hand original enlargements from black and white or color negative , on the other hand enlargements from intermediate negative , which are combined to form a collage .

Participation in exhibitions

Frank Mardaus took part in a number of artistic exhibitions both at home and abroad with his recordings. He was already represented with pictures in the Budapest Magyar Fotográfiai Múzeum (in 1997), in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (1998) or in the art exhibition in the French department Mayenne (2004). In 2001 there was a presentation by him at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York .

In Germany, the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences (Gallery FB 2) and the Ebersberg Art Association approached the photographer in 1997 with a view to its annual exhibition in 2005. In 2004, pictures by Frank Mardaus were shown at the Great Art Exhibition in Halle / Saale and the Great North Swabian Art Exhibition in Donauwörth. In 2007, his works were on view in the joint exhibition “Geruestet” in the Tuscan portico of the Augsburg armory . A year later, Mardaus took part in the exhibition of art prize winners from the city of Augsburg in the H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in the Augsburg Glass Palace . In 2009 the Central Swabian Local History Museum in Krumbach showed pictures of the artist in the exhibition "Water".

Solo exhibitions

An insight into Mardaus' works was shown in Augsburg in 1997 under the title “everything is wounded”. In the following year the motto was "aspettare - wait" at an exhibition in Palermo and in 2003 in Riga one could familiarize oneself with photographic impressions headed "at night" . Together with his wife, Mardaus organized the exhibition "WE-0007" in the Augsburg city archive in 2009 . In 2012 the exhibition "Confidential - Only for official use" followed in the Augsburg New Gallery in the Höhmannhaus .

honors and awards

Frank Mardaus received

  • 2001 the art promotion award of the city of Augsburg in the field of fine arts
  • 2004 the art prize of the city of Augsburg
  • 2005 the Bavarian State's Debutant Prize.

literature

  • Frank Mardaus: Photographic Signs. Uwe Johnson's picture program in the "Anniversaries". Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-525-20948-6 .
  • Frank Mardaus, Caroline Mardaus: Findbuch WE-0007 , Augsburg 2009. ISBN 978-3-87512-431-6 .
  • Augsburg Prize Winners Fine Arts 1997–2007 : Karin Ottmann, Christian Hörl, Anja Güthoff, Wolfgang Schenk, Frank Mardaus, Karen Irmer, Hama Lohrmann, Achim Stiermann, Kathrin Alt / Benjamin Appel, Natalija Ribovic / Art Collections and Museums Augsburg. Catalog ed. by Thomas Elsen; Augsburg: Art Collections, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ literaturkritik.de, No. 2 February 2010: Blurred exposure , queried on August 3, 2010
  2. ↑ Monthly Augsburg Journal , March 2009: When he is younger ...
  3. ↑ Mittelschwäbisches Heimatmuseum Krumbach: Wasser, 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 29, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum.krumbach.de
  4. ↑ Mittelschwäbisches Heimatmuseum Krumbach: Exhibition water  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 958 kB), requested on July 29, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.museum.krumbach.de  
  5. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from September 22, 2009: Order in the archive of collected memories (PDF; 230 kB) ( Memento from October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Life in miniature in the Augsburger Allgemeine queried on April 5, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Mardaus, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg